Traditional Day Camps in New York City

Asphalt Green Summer Day Camp

Kids ages 4½ to 15 participate in sports, arts, field trips, and daily swim time at state-of-the-art indoor and outdoor facilities, including a 1.5-acre field and 25-yard and 50-meter pools.

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ACT Summer Camp

ACT Campers spend their days on the glorious 11-acre campus of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Days include time for outdoor adventures, creative performances, games, challenges, and more. Programs are offered over school breaks and summer, too.

Advantage Day Camps

Kids ages 4 to 14 swim, play tennis, and participate in gym and field sports. Advantage also offers arts and crafts, nature exploration, and enrichment classes in everything from fencing to chess, plus a rock climbing wall at the Manhattan Plaza location. Transportation is available.

Camp Léman

Campus Day Camp & Campus After School Program

Creative Arts & Athletics Camp

Creative Arts & Athletics' major subject areas at CAA are Visual Arts (drawing, painting, design, sewing, crafts, and more), Performing Arts (theatre, dance, instrumental music, singing, and more), Athletics (swimming, soccer, basketball, track, fitness, indoor tennis, and more), and Technology (computers, film, journalism, photography, creative writing, and more). A Festival is held on the last day of camp with live performances, videos, and visual art installations as well as sports demonstrations.

Deer Mountain Day Camp

At Deer Mountain Day Camp, campers ages 3 to 15 have a blast as they enjoy expert-taught activities including swimming (instructional and recreational), sports, fine and performing arts, outdoor adventure, nature, STEM, lake, and special events.

Deerkill Day Camp

Deerkill has long been a summer destination for kids ages 3 to 15. The nurturing staff provides professional instruction in swimming, athletics, and specialty programs like movie making and garden-to-table cooking. A complimentary weekend club is included for every camper family.

Garden School Summer Camp

Oasis Day Camps

Oasis offers a traditional day camp for grades K-6, a field trip-focused program for ages 12-14, and a transitional camp for preschoolers. Activities revolve around the arts, outdoor education, sports, team-building, and instructional and recreational swimming. Locations in NYC, Wetchester and Long Island.

Park Slope Day Camp

Park Slope Day Camp provides kids entering pre-K to 8th grade with a wide variety of activities, including traditional day camp, circus camp, travel camp, and sports academies. Plenty of time is spent outdoors in local parks.

Pierce Country Day Camp

Four generations of the Pierce family have been committed to creating magical summers for 3s to 9th graders. Pierce offers a huge range of sports, arts, aquatics and adventure activities on a 27-acre campus with an interactive water park, 7 pools, aerial treehouse, and zip lines.

Ross School

STEAM Camp at the Cathedral School

SummerSault at The Town School

TADA! Youth Theater

TADA! brings back in-person camps for summer 2021, with four-day long musical theater camps at its Flatiron theater in July and August. Seasoned theater pros teach kids the core elements of musical theater, including singing, dancing, and acting their way through popular Broadway hits and TADA's original productions. Online options are also available.

The Nature Place Day Camp

Camp at The Nature Place focuses on being in and connecting with the natural world. Campers take part in cooperative games, hiking, earth art, mucking in the stream, camping, canoeing, farming and gardening, meeting animals, storytelling, music, archery, and more.

Trail Blazers

14th Street Y Camps

The 14th Street Y hosts a variety of camps including programs for toddlers through 8th graders. Its New Town Day Camp hosts full- and half-day sessions at the Y. Older kids can attend the New Country Day Camp at the Henry Kaufman Campgrounds. Special needs camps are also available.

92Y Camps

With convenient bus pickups in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Riverdale, and Northern New Jersey, campers can enjoy the 92Y Camp's 50-acre campground. Camps Tova and Bari Tov provide a range of diverse activities for campers ages 5-13 with learning and developmental disabilities.

Alamander Camp

Each session of Alamander Camp begins with a springboard topic. Younger campers draw inspiration from a material, like cloth, wood, or clay. Older campers explore themes including comic books, tiny worlds, and flea market. Every week includes daily park trips and lots of time for free play.

Aviator Sports Day Camp

Aviator's summer day camp offers traditional activities like arts and crafts, drama, science, and swimming, plus unique specialties including ice skating, rock climbing, and more—all within its 175,000-square-foot sports complex. School break camps are also offered.

Backpacks & Binoculars

BCAP Summer Camp

BCAP Summer Camp is an award-winning day camp for kids ages in grades 2-7. During each two-week summer section, Adventurers visit two institutions on the Cultural Campus each day, exploring an annual theme through games, experiments, creative arts, and exploration.

Beansprouts Nursery School & Summer Camp

Blue Dolphin Summer Camp

Blue Dolphin offers an amazing range of activities, from taekwondo to ceramics, basketball, softball, tennis, yoga, lacrosse, hockey, gaga ball, and more! Weekly themes, dress-up-days and field trips are included, too.

Bonjour NY Manhattan & Brooklyn French Camp

Campers are immersed in the French language, outdoor experiences, and loads of summer fun! The focus is on building confidence, friendship, and language skills through fun and engaging activities linked to weekly themes.

Breukelen Farmers Summer Camp

Bronx House Day Camps

Bronx House offers a variety of summer camp programs from early childhood to grade six. The youngest campers call Bronx House home and explore the local neighborhood, while older kids can participate in traditional day camps on its Rockland County Campus or enjoy travel and overnight camps.

Brooklyn Friends Summer Camp

Brooklyn Friends Summer Camp offers three sessions of engaging theme-based activities led by teaching artists. In addition to theme-based specialized activities, all campers participate in core summer camp elements each session, including swimming, cooking, sports, yoga, and more. An arts-based camp is available for children in grades 3-7.

Brooklyn Heights Montessori School - A Montessori Summer

Brooklyn Heights Montessori School opens the doors in late June to welcome campers to A Montessori Summer. This rich program offers swimming instruction, athletics, visual and performing arts, cooking, and outdoor adventures. And every Friday is trip day!

Brooklyn Jewish Camp

camp apple seeds

camp apple seeds takes a hands-on approach, engaging campers in recreational, manipulative, and dramatic play, music and storytelling, cooking, science, construction, and craft activities with daily themes.

Camp at the West Side YMCA

Camp Gnarly

Camp Henry at Henry Street Settlement

Camp Jewell YMCA

Camp Pixel: Studios

Camp Pixel Studios are a mix of “traditional” summer camps and one-of-a-kind project-based STEM camps. Each session, campers age 7 to 13 can choose a technology theme, like building an escape room or developing a video game, while enjoying sports, field trips, and more.

Children's Academy at LIU Brooklyn

Children’s Athletic Training School (CATS)

Columbia University Little Lions Camp

Little Lions Campers have access to Columbia University's top-notch Division 1 athletic facilities. Programming features an ever-changing combination of classic PE games, backyard favorites, sports, arts and crafts, and special surprises to keep kids happy, active, and engaged.

Construction Kids Summer Programs

Construction Kids provides "Real Tools for Small Hands" in week-long summer camps known for the dynamic projects campers build. Construction Kids teaches safe, appropriate tool usage along with drawing, painting, and creative play.

Downtown Day Camp

Downtown Day Camp offers a complete day camp experience for kids ages 4 to 13, including aquatics, athletics, and arts and sciences. The program's facilities feature a 75-foot pool, outdoor ball fields, four arts and dance studios, gymnasiums, music rooms, science rooms, and more.

Dwight Summer Camp

Dwight Summer Camp shifts to a new Upper West Side location this summer, and campers participate in a varied, active curriculum with sports like yoga, tennis, swimming, and basketball along with dance, arts, and crafts. Transportation and extended days are available.

Dwight-Englewood Summer Connections

Fox and Trove - World Changer Camp

Each day at World Changer Camp centers around 1-2 social-emotional learning skills: empathy, self-calming, emotion regulation, resiliency, bravery, grit, conflict resolution, inclusion, acts of kindness, and how to be a world changer. Even though these topics sound serious, camp activities are lots of fun, super silly, and play-based.

Gate Hill Day Camp

Family owned and operated for two generations, Gate Hill offers a top-notch day camp experience for campers ages 3-15. The unique, state-of-the-art facility offers 33 acres of outdoor adventure, authentic athletic fields, creative and performing arts activities, wet and wacky fun at the Splash Park, and a heated, 4-pool complex that is home to a proven learn-to-swim program.

Harlem School of the Arts

Havaya: The Summer Experience at Beit Rabban Day School

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